Song Of The Day - Earth by Sleeping At Last
As a lover of music and lyrics I love sharing my favorite music with others in the form of lyric videos. Unfortunately due to tempo I'm not always able to use my style of lyric videos if the song is too slow so I figured I'd start to share some of the songs here.
This song is by one of my favorite singer/song writers who goes by the moniker Sleeping At Last. He did a whole album titled Space where each song was a planet and the song I'm posting is Earth. It has one of the most lyrically complex choruses I've run across. Lyrics and video are below.
I dig 'til my shovel tells a secret
Swear to the earth that I will keep it
Brush off the dirt
And let my change of heart occur
Sold soon after the appraisal
The hammer struck the auction table
Louder than anything I've ever heard
Fault lines tremble underneath my glass house
But I put it out of my mind
Long enough to call it courage
To live without a lifeline
I bend the definition
Of faith to exonerate my blind eye
'Til the sirens sound, I'm safe
Meanwhile, my family's taking shelter
The sparks send the fire down the wire
A countdown begins
Until the dynamite gives in
The echo, as wide as the equator
Travels through a world of built up anger
Too late to pull itself together now
There was an earthquake
There was an avalanche of change
We were so afraid
We cried ourselves a hurricane
There were floods
And tidal waves over us
We folded our hands and prayed
Like a domino
These wildfires grow and grow
Until a brand new world takes shape
